Ed Dye and Ken Soons have announced the opening of Artistic Image, an Atlanta-based studio with animation, CGI, character development, finishing and live-action production capabilities.
The studio, based in the city’s trendy King’s Plow Center, is ready to offer a top-caliber creative resource to ad agencies in the Southeast in a wide range of media from TV to web content, viral campaigns and print.
‘Our goal was to create a design-driven company where a team of top-caliber directors, designers, producers, visual effect artists, animators, illustrators, editors and compositors work under one roof with unfettered access to each other’s creative input throughout every phase of the creative process,’ said Dye and Soons in a statement.
Soons worked at A Band Apart Commercials as postproduction supervisor before going out on his own as an editor, and ultimately bringing his experience in the post and VFX arena to his role as director. He has worked for such prestigious clients as J. Walter Thompson, Chiat Day, TNT, Cartoon Network and CNN.
Dye helms Artistic Image’s design and FX division, providing creative direction as he guides projects in the realm of CGI, 3D imaging, effects, motion graphics animation, character generation, broadcast design, compositing, editing, digital illustration and creative imaging. His credits include directing and creating the look for the 2009 and 2010 Latin America Academy Awards Show, and The Global Globe awards for TNT/Latin America, Ford and AT&T.
